1. Life is a huge colosseum, in which the human heart and human nature are constantly tested by reality. Fictional stories often push it to the extreme, peeling and peeling a bloody problem before us, forcing viewers to torture their own hearts. The protagonists of such stories are often children, making people appear cruel under the beautiful mask of a child, such as "Battle Royale", "Lord of the Flies", and now, "The Hunger Games."
When people first learned about "Hunger Game", it was difficult not to associate it with "Battle Royale". Some people said that this is the American version, but in fact, it is not like this. There are some similar settings, but it is said. A completely different story. Simply put, Kitano took the torture of human nature before extreme choices to extremes. With dozens of children and various mentalities, he is a naked bystander watching how desperate chooses. The male teacher inside is equally desperate in such an era. It is hard for us to hate such a desperate soul, but in Hunger Game, you hate such a system that plays with people's hearts. In such a story, people of the upper class take pleasure in watching children fight to death. At the beginning of the story, Gale told Katniss that if there were no audiences, there would be no more such a show, as an enduring show. The entire commercialization process is portrayed in the movie, and the reactions of the audience and sponsors make you shudder. The President said that we need victors, we must give them hope, and contain their hope; in order to protect Katniss from lobbying outside the court, the mentor inside has to propose using young love to increase drama. This is the biggest difference from "Battle Royale". They are children living in a huge studio. Their fate has become a tool of profit. They can no longer choose by themselves. Hope can be used and love has become. A tool for manipulating people's hearts is more terrifying than setting off a wildfire and setting off a few wild beasts. And it is not only the hearts of the fighting children, but also the audience that are manipulated. Building momentum, cheering, excitement, being slapped with the honor of the ethnic group, all these are subtly manipulating people's hearts.
Shooting such a movie is easy to become thankless. A big challenge the director has to face is how to distinguish the audience in the story from the audience in reality. For example, like another one, "Truman". But this film seems to be more difficult. The director has to directly show the program itself, and at the same time hope to convey a condemning attitude to the viewers. When people sit in the movie theater and watch the second half of the film, is it because of which scene? Death felt angry and happy. After that, would he still dare to examine his own heart? Fortunately, the film changed the original first-person narration from the perspective of the spectator, and the nearly one-hour pre-match description provided a good foundation. From the hardships of tribal life, the fear of younger sisters, the process of selection, the portrayal of parting, the excitement of people when they arrived in the capital, and the full show in the talk show, the extreme prosperous and noisy highlights the irony, hypocrisy and cruelty.
The fight itself only took less than an hour, which was enough to make me suffer. The 24 people died at the beginning of the scene. The focus of the narration was very clear on the protagonist. The others had almost taken a few strokes, which is different from "Battle Royale". The feeling of depression that had been laid for an hour before finally broke out in the rapidly shaking shots, fast editing, and heavy breathing, and the characters' inner fear and tension were clearly highlighted.
With such an effort, the director still allowed us as bystanders to see the powerlessness of our personal destiny under the huge system, and the human heart was manipulated to contribute to the killing without knowing it. In some details, we can also see suppressed anger, such as what Gale said to Katniss before, Mentor’s decadence and the hatred and anger in the eyes when watching Capital’s children play, and the expressions of people in the tribe when watching the show. It is completely different from the people in the capital, full of worries and pain, and even the riots in District 11 may also pave the way for the next two movies.
2. "What better vocabulary than'see you tomorrow'?" Seven years ago, this was a line in "Little Manhattan" when Josh Hutcherson was still a little kid. Josh Hutcherson is no longer the little boy riding a wheelbarrow in Manhattan. He is not handsome and does not like to study, but he is indeed a natural actor, from "Little Manhattan", "Bridge to Wonderland", to Today's "The Hunger Games" proves this again, which is a digression.
The night before entering the arena, Peeta said to Katniss, see you tomorrow. In a blink of an eye, seven years later, when the same line came out of Josh Hutcherson's mouth again in such a story, it couldn’t help people. Feel extremely cruel. Peeta is indeed the character that touched me the most. In the movie, there is no such thing as in the book that makes us guess his sincerity and kindness, but he was also very weak and inferior. His survival skills are first-rate. From the beginning, he He is a runaway, but he explained true bravery in another way. He may not resent the cruelty of fate. He is ready to die, and he knew from the moment he was selected with Katniss that he had to Dead, because he wanted Katniss to survive.
Katniss, who didn't get a response from the little girl, frantically searched in the forest. After the sound of cannons in the air, Katniss who found Peeta wept bitterly. Katniss’s weakness is not hers. The producer knows this deeply. Whether you are cruel or kind, active or passive, you cannot help but choose the beginning of the killing. Lawrence is beautiful. She played the strong and fragile of Katniss. Struggle and despair.
In the end when Katniss and Peeta were about to commit suicide, they seemed to suddenly become relieved in Katniss' eyes. Instead of living with such a cruel past, at least he has the right to choose to die. At that moment, it seems that fate has never been in his own hands. Here, that may be what young lives have most desired. But this is still an American-style story, as the president said, much hope is dangerous. So the story still did not go to despair, and then there will be revolutions and resistances in the next two parts.
On the way home, there was no joy in the winner's face. Katniss just wanted to forget everything. Her face was no longer the perseverance when she left home. Behind her strong smile was a heart that kept trembling. At that time, she was not afraid of anything, even death, but it turned out that in the face of fiddling with fate, the choice was far from simple.
At that time, the news that two people in the same district could win at the same time gave Katniss new hope. It turned out that in the lonely desperate situation, "see you tomorrow" is such an extravagant and heavy word. It makes people brave and strong, and it makes people vulnerable.
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